Steel City Cold Cases

Steel City Cold Cases is a public service from The Pueblo Chieftain. Pueblo has dozens of unsolved homicide and missing person cases that date back decades. This project is aimed at keeping some of them in front of the public.

This list is not complete, but here you’ll find more than 30 homicides and missing person cases, some better known than others.

It is definitely not a comprehensive list. There was a woman murdered around 1980 (?) Sharon Copely IIRC. Half of the body was found on the East Side and the other half was found by fishermen on Lake Pueblo. A “wife beater” t shirt with the stylized image of crazed soccer player on the front was found with the body. That was probably one of the most infamous murders in Pueblo’s history. It would be interesting to compare Pueblo with similar cities and see how it stacks up in its number of cold cases.

@Joseph Schmoe, per the instructions above you can use the Search box to look for specific criteria or browse through the cases, and click on a Last Name to see details about the case. Thanks for visiting!

How does this compare to other city’s ? how often are the victims of crime in pueblo forgotten because they are poor. It’s a sad day when the city council is dipping into reserves to give 1.2 million to PCSO when all these crimes are unsolved and they still haven’t caught the rye killer/arsonist even thought 50+ tips have come in and many on there facebook page

December 18,2013 “What Happens When NO ONE is Watching,?” by Mona Charen. Pueblo Judicial Injustice and crimes happen. It is not that no one is not looking, it is that all those who could stand for justice and integrity WILL NOT. This article could very well be about Pueblo, Co.